A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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